Historical clue formulations

• Who knows what preceded the Big Bang — 2026-07-16
• Whom a diary is often shown to — 2026-02-24
• Who "can get in the way of what I'm feelin'," in an Alicia Keys hit — 2025-05-08
• Who has successfully juggled 15 balls simultaneously — 2024-11-03
• Everybody's opposite — 2024-01-26
• Nary a soul — 2024-01-10
• Not a single person — 2023-08-07
• Worst possible turnout — 2022-11-03
• Nary a soul — 2022-01-05
• Who ran against George Washington for president — 2021-12-26
• Who is "too small to make a difference," per a Greta Thunberg book title — 2021-12-05
• "... said ___ ever" — 2021-09-12
• Who can hear you scream in space — 2021-08-22
• Who can get in the way of what Alicia Keys feels for you, in a 2007 hit — 2021-05-29
• Who "can get in the way of what I feel for you," in a 2007 #1 Alicia Keys hit — 2020-12-27
• Everybody's opposite — 2020-11-17
• Disappointing turnout — 2020-11-13
• 0% of the population — 2020-09-03
• Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard hits simultaneously — 2019-12-22
• Who lives at the North Pole, in reality — 2019-03-11
• Everybody's opposite — 2018-02-18
• Who has ever won a debate over the internet? — 2017-06-18
• Dismal turnout — 2017-03-10
• Who has won more Olympic medals than Michael Phelps — 2016-09-22
• Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who — 2015-12-08
• Very sad turnout — 2015-05-29
• Ray Charles hit of 1963 — 2014-05-22
• Who has scored more than 850 points in an official Scrabble game — 2014-01-09
• #1 Alicia Keys hit of 2007 — 2012-12-18
• Ray Charles hit of 1963 — 2012-06-12
• Nary a soul — 2011-08-30
• Herman's Hermits frontman — 2011-05-20
• "I'm Henry VIII, I am" singer — 2009-10-30
• "___ Is to Blame" (1986 hit) — 2009-10-28
• Nary a soul — 2009-08-19
• Who opposed George Washington for president in 1792 — 2009-01-01
• Nary a soul — 2008-08-18
• Who has won an Oscar for Best Actor three times — 2007-12-27
• Nary a soul — 2007-08-14
• Before Oedipus, who could answer the riddle of the Sphinx — 2007-05-02
• To whom a dictator answers — 2007-02-04
• Whom a leader follows — 2006-12-29
• Who is above the law, theoretically — 2006-06-15
• Not a soul — 2005-05-03
• Who "knows," in a 1958 Dion & the Belmonts hit — 2005-04-23
• Who discovers the perfect crime — 2005-02-17
• Not a soul — 2005-01-06
• Nary a soul — 2005-01-05
• Zero population — 2004-12-19
• Nary a soul — 2004-07-26